Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation
by danlitt on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:27AM
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They said "leading innovative framework", and innovative is the key word. The biggest player is almost never innovating, they are usually performing some kind of undeserved market capture.
Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation
by gitaarik on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:53AM
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Indeed, I meant leading in innovation.
React isn't innovating, it's just improving what it already does, but it doesn't do it in a new way.
That makes it stable, and a safe choice for devs. But yeah indeed like the article says, it kind of stagnates innovation in the ecosystem. But yeah I guess that is because React is usually "good enough" in most cases. Not enough reason to use something else.
Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation
by itake on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @02:12AM
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This FE survey also has React leading by a wide margin:
https://2024.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-framewo...
I'm familiar enough with Angular, React, Flutter, Vue, and Svelte as big names in the ecosystem, but have really only done scrappy development with React and not much with the others.
Google trends seems to show React is still a leader [1], and React has more than double the amount of Github stars than any of the others I've mentioned except Flutter, by which it still leads a healthy margin.
- [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=32&date=today%2...